Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-26
NEWS sUMMAR
The Dakota FioOds-A Freight Train
Crashes Into = Passenger Trsin-an
Ex-Warrant Clerk Steals Over $500

The Dakota Floods-A Freight Train
Crashes Into y Passenger Trsin-ai
kx-Warrant Clerk Steals Over $500
The foods in all the rivers OF Dakota
continue without abatement, end the
Red river Is higher than was ever
known before. Gteat damage has beeL
Done TO property and more is thres t.
ened. ID. M. Kennedy, bis wife and
tbres children, have been for six days
isolated on Sable Island, near Bis.
marck. They OCCUPY a '.nest" in limbs
OF troes three miles from shore, and sub.
sist on what they can gather from the
water; but 1t ie possible TO reach them.
Five persons have been drowned rear
Legrace.
Bonjamin j. Andrews, ex warran.
clerk in the Mayors efiice, was yester.
day arraiened In tho Court Of Quarter
Sessioas en- five bills of indictment
charging him with conspiracy to de
iraud the city and larceny OF eleven or.
cers for city warrants, valued at $3.50
from the ofice OF the Mayor. He plead
ed guilty to three bills, two chsrginQ
conspiracy aud the other the larceny OF
i've orders for warrants, valued ai
$40 Al.
An express train on the Fort Wayne
Railroad was stopped st Leeton.a, Ohio
yesterday morning, about O'Clock, be
cause OF leak in the air-brake hose
While the engineer, William Beall, was
examining the leak, q freight train
crashed into the rear Of the express
telescoping the sleeper aad passenger
car. The engineer, Beall, was killed
and eight other persons were injured
one, j. O. Hazlet', fatally.
Jacob Kahn, OF New York, one O,
the injured BY the Richmond Hotel
tire, died on Friday In Buffalo. This
makes fourteen persons known TO be
dead. The hotel register was discovered
on Friday. Five bodies remain in the
ruins, those OF three servant girls, OF
Mark Osborne, day clerk, and r.. 8.
Boyd, guest.
William Bates, an ex.Deputy II, 8,
Marshal, n few days ago got into q
difficulty" with man named Cheney,
aud shot him dead. near Somerset
keatucky. 1t is said Bates "hae en-.
gagged In numerous fights and has killed
hve or elk oen, but at no time has he
been the a.gresscr.
John Clark was arrested about two
O'Clock yesterday morning, as he war
crawling cut Of the coal hole under the
window OF the barber shop Of David
Goodheart, 722 Wool street. Hs had
raz?rs, shears and clippers in his
pockets.
Benjamin Ball, aged 76 years, was
shot dead by Charles Williams, aged 15
In Portsmouth, Ohio, on Thur day eve,
DING. Ball was demonstrating against
the building Of bonfire near his prem
ises by young Williams.
In Providence, Rhode Island, yeeter
day morning, John @. Rovelto, aged 81
years, M alay, who was watching witt
u sick mar. was killed by ths invalid't
nephew, who went home crazeG with
drink.
Amos johnson ,colored. aged 40 years
was hanged Friday at Marion, Arknn
sas, for having feloniously assaulted al
rs year'oid child. About 1900 person;
witnessed the execution.
Miss A Hancock, aged II, was she
dead in Youngstown, Ohio, on Thursd ay
night, By Eoenezer Stay nard " hose ad.
dresses she had rejected.
Mrs. Joseph Mattesou killed her 2
gear old girl and committed suicide /,
New York Mills Minnesota, on Thurs
day morning.
jackson Marion, for the murder o
John Cameron, fifteen years ago, wa
hanged Friday at Beatrice, Nebraska.